The dermal skull roof of Acanthostega gunnari, an early tetrapod from the Late Devonian

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-33

  Clack, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dermal bones; East Greenland; Fammennian; Skull structure; Sutures

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; FAMENNIAN; MORPHOLOGY; SKULL; TAXONOMY; TETRAPOD;

GREENLAND;

ACANTHOSTEGA; ACANTHOSTEGA GUNNARI; ANIMALIA; ENTOVALVA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036408653     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300000304     Document Type: Article

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